I apologize if this message is being sent to the wrong
mail list, but if so, could you let me know where I
shoudl foreward it please.
Basically, I've just "upgraded" from a 486 DX4 100Mhz
Linux box (on which I started to introduce myself to
linux), to a Pentium 60mhz (Both with 40 Megs of RAM).
I have as so far notice an INCREDIBLE drop is system
speed (where the current pentium is making the 486
look like a Sparc! I havent the foggiest idea why this
may be (but for the possible fact that while
installing SuSE on the pentium, I was using the 5.2
boot disk with 5.3 CDrom ). If anyone knows how I can
speed this up, as it takes almost 15-20 mins to load
up SaX (and then the mouse takes around 5 minutes to
respond to movements), it is practically impossible to
do anything. Any suggestions would help.
Secondly, my problem is that on upgrade, I also
purchased a 32x Samsung CDROM. I have recently
discovered that all kernel versions prior to 2.2.0
have a bug with the transfer rate from that particular
brand of drives (ie: 65534 instead of 65535 for packet
sizes). I am aware that there is a patch to upgrade
to 2.2.x that fixes the bug, but I wonder if that
would be usable for the current kernel version that
comes with SuSE 5.3 (2.0.35 I believe). Or, if there
is anything I can do to overcome this transfer problem
(I managed to get around it with some minor bios
buffering, enabling me to install SuSE 5.3, but this,
coupled with slow pc performance as mentioned above,
took me well over 4 hours to install 148 packages. So
all in all, I'm in desperate need of help :)! (Linux
newbie, yes I am! :))
So, I apologize again if this is in the wrong place,
and would you let me know if so, so I can fix it.
Otherwise, I hope for prompt replies :)
Thanks,
Keith Snape
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